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GLOSSARY 3 1
Truth had closed eyes. Rosellini speaks of the Thmei being worn as a
necklace. Diodorus gives such a necklace of gold and stones to the
High Priest when delivering judgment. The Septuagint translates
Thummin as Truth ". (Bonwick's Egyp. Belief.)
Arka (Sk.). The Sun.
Arkites. The ancient priests who were attached to the Ark, whether
of Isis, or the Hindu Arglla, and who were seven in number, like the
priests of the Egyptian Tat or any other cruciform symbol of the three
and the fOtlY, the combination of which gives a male-female number.
The Argha (or ark) was the four-fold female principle, and the flame
burning over it the triple Ungham.
Aroueris (Gr.). The god Harsiesi, who was the elder Horus. He had
a temple at Ambos. If we bear in mind the definition of the chief
Egyptian gods by Plutarch, these myths will become more comprehensible
i as he well says: "Osiris represents the beginning and principle i
Isis, that which receives i and Horus, the compound of both. Horus
engendered between them, is not eternal nor incorruptible, but, being
always in generation, he endeavours by vicissitudes of imitations, and
by periodical passion (yearly re-awakening to life) to continue always
young', as if he should never die." Thus, since Horus is the personified
physical world, Aroueris, or the fl elder Horus ", is the ideal Universe i
and this accounts for the saying that" he was begotten by Osiris and
Isis when these were still in the bosom of their mother "-Space. There
is indeed, a good deal of mystery about this god, but the meaning of the
symbol becomes clear once one has the key to it.
Artephius.-A great Hermetic philosopher, whose true name was
never known and whose works are without dates, though it is known
that he wrote his Secret Book in the XIIth century. Legend has it that
he was one thousand years old at that time. There is a book on
dreams by him in the possession of an Alchemist, now in Bagdad, in
which he gives out the secret of seeing the past, the present, and the
future, in sleep, and of remembering the thing-s seen. There are but
two copies of this manuscript extant. The book on Dreams by the Jew
Solomon Almulus, published in Hebrew at Amsterdam in 1642, has a
few reminiscences from the former work of Artephius.
Artos (Eg.). The Earth; ·the Egyptian god Mars.
Artufas. A generic name in South America and the islands for
temples of nagalism or serpent worship.
Arundhati (Sk.). The II 1Iorning Star"; Lucifer-Venus.
Arfrpa (Sk.). II Bodiless ", formless, as opposed to rllpa, II body",
or form.